Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 75
A Musulman noble famed for his courage rose, saluted the emperor and promised to bring the king back alive.
Who acts: Musulman noble, courage · What happens: fame, rise, salute, promise, bring back · To what, where: emperor, king
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musulman noble, courage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 noble | det |
| 2 | Musulman | Musulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 noble | compound |
| 3 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 famed | nsubj |
| 4 | famed | fame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 rose | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 courage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 famed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saluted | punct |
| 10 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 famed | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 emperor | det |
| 12 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saluted | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 promised | cc |
| 14 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saluted | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 promised | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 20 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bring | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 famed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fame | past | a Musulman noble | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | Emperor's courage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | salute | past | the emperor | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king | alive property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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